In 1765, he began experimenting with working models of steam-engine -powered vehicles for the French Army, intended for transporting cannons. French Army captain Cugnot was one of the …

Laurent Cars (28 May 1699 – 14 April 1771) was a French designer and engraver. He was born at Lyon, the son of Jean-François Cars, who took him when quite young to Paris, where it was …

In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles into a stone wall, making Cugnot the first person to get into a motor vehicle accident. This was the beginning of bad luck for the inventor. After one …

2001年4月1日 · Cugnot’s 1771 fardier features such up-to-date concepts as front-wheel drive and rack-and-pinion steering.

2015年11月5日 · Around 1770, approximately half a century before serious experimentation began on tracked locomotives, a French artillery officer named Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot …

2019年9月9日 · It was the very first self-propelled road vehicle and was taken by the French army as a military tractor to haul artillery at a whopping speed of 2 and 1/2 miles per hour. Due to a …

2019年7月3日 · In 1771, Cugnot drove one of his road vehicles into a stone wall, giving the inventor the distinct honor of being the first person to get into a motor vehicle accident. …

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot (born September 25, 1725, Void, France—died October 2, 1804, Paris) was a French military engineer who designed and built the world’s first true automobile —a …

2021年12月14日 · In 1771, during a trial Cugnot drove one of his vehicles into a stone wall, giving the inventor the distinct honor of being the first person to get into a motor vehicle accident. The …

By century's end, the average American adult would travel more than 10,000 miles a year by car. Other countries did much of the technological pioneering of automobiles. A French military …